Joystick 2.0 this week in Malmö

[Makke]

I haven't seen anyone mention this here, and I only found out about this today (baaad PR!!!)!

On Thursday (yes two days from now) and Friday this week Malmö Symphonic Orchestra will perform their second video/computer game concert - the first one being the free one during Malmöfestivalen last year. That one was brilliant, so I urge you to go see this if you're in or around Malmö this week. I've booked tickets for the Friday show, and according to ticnet there are plenty of tickets left - they're 200 SEK a pop.

If interested, you can book tickets at http://www.mso.se/sv/" target="_blank

Here's what they'll play:

Killzone (2004)
av Joris de Man
Helghast March c:a 4.30
Untold Legends - Dark Kingdom (2006)
av Laura Karpman
Mychty Personne c:a 3.30

Suikoden (1995)
av Masahiko Kimura, Norikazu Miura, Michiru Yamane & Coba.
Arrangerad av Karl- Johan Ankarblom
Into a World of Illusions C.a 3.00

Nintendo medley
arrangerad av Nils Petter Ankarblom
Super Metroid (1994) av Minako Hamano
Starfox (1993) av Hajime Hirasawa
Castelvania (1986) av Kinuyo Yamashita
Super Mario Bros (1985) av Koji Kondo
Legend of Zelda (1987) av Koji Kondo
c:a 7.00

Shadow of the Colossus (2005)
av Ken Otawi
Arrangerad av Christoffer Nobin
Sign of the Colossus
Revived Power
End of the Battle
c:a 7.00

Halo-trilogin (2001, 2004, 2007)
av Martin O’ Donnell & Michael Salvatori
Arrangerad av Ingvar Karkoff:
Halo
Leonidas
Unforgotten
Finish the fight
c:a 12.00

PAUS

C-64 medley
arrangerad av Jari Eskola
Defender of the Crown (1986) av Jim Cuomo
Commando (1985) av Rob Hubbard
Delta (1987) av Rob Hubbard
The Way of the Exploding Fist (1985) av Neil Brennan
The Last Ninja (1987) av Ben Daglish
M.U.L.E. (1983) av Roy Glover
Monty on the Run (1985) av Rob Hubbard
c:a 9.00

Svit från Spiderman 3 (2007)
av Tobias Enhus
Arrangerad av Stephen Coleman
c:a 6.00

Secret of Mana (1993)
av Hiroki Kikuta
Arrangerad av Nils Petter Ankarblom
Fear of the Angels
c:a 3.00

BIOSHOCK TM (2007)
av Garry Schyman
Cohen’s master piece
Dr Steinmann
Main theme
Welcome to Rapture
c:a 7.00

Final Fantasy VII (1997)
av Nobuo Uematsu
Main Theme
c:a 6.30

Final Fantasy VIII (1999)
av Nobuo Uematsu
Liberi Fatali
c:a 3.00

[Max Levin]

Same as last year: Wont be in Malmö until saturday, this very week and all

[Fluke73]

Im going... i will tell people about it as well on the Boz show tonight on Slayradio. Anyone wanna have a get-together before or afterwards?

[Makke]

Anyone wanna have a get-together before or afterwards?

Sara and I are having dinner before the concert, and then hooking up with some friends afterwards. We'll see if we can sort some kind of after-concert-pub-thing.

Anyway, I'll see you there!

[Makke]

Great concert! Good selection of tracks, even though I've not played some of the later titles yet. I think it was fun both for the audience and the orchestra, as it really wasn't the "usual group/kind of people" listening.

Two things bothered me though:
1. I was surrounded by kids in pre or early teens, and towards the end of the concert they started to get ants in their pants and couldn't sit still. Kids of today! Pfff! They even left during the standing ovation, which is a bit of an insult to the people on stage. Aw well.

2. I'm fairly sure I'm not wrong here, but with a reservation that my ears may have failed me, they consistently played one note wrong in the lead melody of Way of the Exploding Fist. (I'm nitpicking I know!)

None the less it was a great evening, and I managed to run into, and have brief chats with both Fluke73 and Max Levin. Except them I really didn't see anyone I knew.

Anyway, excellent evening! Hopefully they'll arrange more concerts like this, and considering they sold out both evenings I suspect they will. For the money if nothing else...

[Max Levin]

I'm glad I could rescedule so I could witness this pretty amazing show. I thought Orvar Säfström(the host) proved his point about the visuals; we really don't need no big screens where someone's recorded a play-thru of Super Mario on. I came to see an orchester perform videogame music live, and that's all I wanna pay for.
Had a little problem with brats in the audience aswell. One girl sat behind me and chewed on her fingernails. Saliva outside of mouth smells for radius, lil miss.
On the big plus the pianist played a flawless version of the victory-tune from Myth. How long wasn't it since I heard that tune?..